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Norma Talmadge graces the cover of a 1927 Photo Play where they headlines scream "the microphone the terror of the studios" . . well, i hate hearing my voice on the answering machine, too!!
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magazine
photo
play
norma
talmadge
Added: 2nd July 2007
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the movie revolves around a brother and sister, Darry and Trish, coming home for a spring holiday break. Their journey is uneventful until they are terrorized by someone in an old truck, and later see the driver unloading what looks like bodies into a hole as they drive past...they turn around to see what's going on. . .what can i say? big mistake . . BIG MISTAKE!!!!
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Jeepers
Creepers
Gina
Philips
Justin
Long
Jonathan
Breck
Added: 21st October 2007
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Chess was front page news and on the cover of Time Magazine in the summer of 1972 when American Bobby Fischer challenged world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Fischer, 29, had been prominent on the chess scene since 1958 when he won the U.S. championship just before he turned 15. The Soviet Union had dominated international chess for 25 years, but Spassky was bamboozled by Fischer's unpredictable openings. Fischer clinched the 24-game match, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, after 21 games with a record of seven wins, three losses, and eleven draws. Fischer's victory generated tremendous interest in the game in the United States. Known as the 'Fischer Boom,' membership numbers in the U.S. Chess Federation reached their peak in the following two years. The eccentric Fischer never defended his title. He opted to resign as world champion in 1974 when not all of his 64 conditions to defend against Anatoly Karpov were accepted by chess' governing body. Since then Fischer has been a recluse. He did make an appearance in 1992 to play his old rival Spassky in a specially arranged match in Yugoslavia. (This violated UN sanctions against Yugoslavia at the time.) Fischer won the match and proclaimed he was still the legitimate world champion. Despite having Jewish ancestry, Fischer is an anti-Semite and a passionate Holocaust denier. Fischer called a Manila talk-radio station to applaud the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a profanity-filled rant. Fischer now lives in Iceland where he was granted citizenship.
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Added: 12th December 2007
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This 1970 clip of Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau is probably unknown to Americans, but it's very famous in Canada. In October 1970, a radical French-Canadian separatist group, the FLQ, began a reign of terror in the province of Quebec. James Cross, a visiting British diplomat, was kidnapped. Shortly afterward, Pierre Laporte, a Quebec cabinet minister, was also kidnapped. (Laporte's dead body was found a few days later.) Prime minister Trudeau responded by invoking Canada's War Measures Act which gave the government extraordinary powers to preserve order. The civil libertarians didn't like it, but it was the most popular thing Trudeau ever did. Watch him as he fields questions from a left-leaning TV reporter.
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Trudeau
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Added: 13th December 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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SNL
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Added: 19th December 2007
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This edition of Time Magazine chronicled the worst incident in the history of the Olympic Games. On September 5, 1972 a radical terrorist group, Black September, got through ridiculously lax security at the athletes' village in Munich, West Germany simply by wearing track suits and acting like they belonged there. At 4:30 a.m. they took a group of 11 Israeli athletes, coaches, and officials hostage. Two Israelis were killed almost instantly for resisting. The other nine died at the airport where special German anti-terror police got into a gun battle with the terrorists. (One German policeman was killed too.) Up to that time, the 1972 Summer Olympics had been a splendid, friendly affair. The 'openness' of the Games and limited security was deliberate. The West German organizers wanted to erase the memories of the 'Nazified' 1936 Berlin Olympics. Since that awful day, Olympic Games security has become much more efficient and hugely expensive.
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Added: 15th August 2008
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"Overshadowing September 11, 2001, another September day 139 years earlier remains the bloodiest single day in American history. On September 17, 1862, there were more than twice the number of fatalities that were suffered in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon . The number of casualties at Antietam was four times greater than American casualties at Normandy. more American soldiers died at Sharspburg (The Confederate name for the battle) than died in combat in all the other wars fought by this country in the nineteenth century combined:" — James McPherson, historian
This day has come to be remembered as
Bloody Wednesday
Bloody Wednesday
Sharpsburg - September 17, 1862
Photos ..
Library of Congress
The Alexander Gardner Collection
John L. Smith
http://flickr.com/photos/johnsmith/
Bethany L King
http://flickr.com/photos/bethanyking/
and Carol Miller
http://flickr.com/photos/cawarfel/
Film Clips
"Glory"
Tri-Star Pictures
Directed by
Edward Zwick
Clip Editor:
Drew McLaughlin
http://youtube.com/profile?user=weben...
Music
Fife and Gun
Old Friends
Randy Edelman
Going Home
John Frizzell and Randy Edelman
Preformed by
Mary Fahl
For more on The Battle of Antietam visit:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/anti/home.htm
http://www.civilwarhome.com/antietam.htm
and
http://aotw.org/
For information on Civil War Reenactments:
http://www.cwreenactors.com/index.php
http://www.sutler.net/eventlist.asp
and
http://www.ncwa.org/
Conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
I want to add an additional site that I happened upon after completion and uploading of the project. I highly recommend this ...
The Civil War Home Page
http://www.civil-war.net/
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War
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Glory
Added: 27th September 2008
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